Memory Systems
Chapter 8 covers memory system architecture and describes how computers communicate with peripheral devices such as keyboards and printers.
Keywords
cache; virtual memory; TLB; page table; I/O; microcontroller; embedded
8.1 Introduction
Computer system performance depends on the memory system as well as the processor microarchitecture. Chapter 7 assumed an ideal memory system that could be accessed in a single clock cycle. However, this would be true only for a very small memory—or a very slow processor! Early processors were relatively slow, so memory was able to keep up. But processor ...
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